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ANTEBELLUM PERIOD
(later known as the Stockton house), the home o? Nicaise and the Remogossa place (now Swoop Manor). Our Place was next - the Raymond Cuevas house - and then came Bookter, Clennan, Henry Saucier, Casanova, and the Catholic Church. Then Eduard Saucier, Manuel who kept a store, Tom Murphy who was clerk of court, Edgar Combel who made cigars and kept a store, Walker and Mendez Toulme.
"Reaching Main Street, we find the store of Toulme and Carver; another house of Toulme; George Weinberg, who kept a shoe store; Lassabe the druggist whose home and store were together and was the only pharmacy in town. Gillum and then Belloir, which was the name of a very well-to-do colored woman who made and sold "sarsparilla", a tonic for which she found a ready sale at a dollar	a gallon. My	father bought five	gallons	for	me at
one time.
"Then came the homes	of Bell, John B.	Toulme,	Carroll,
Columb and then a barroom. Then Louis and Bob Carr's hotel, Captain Wilkinson, who was a veteran of the Battle of New Orleans, and	whose widow married my father on	November	3,	1850.
She was very	good to me and	I was fond of her.
"Next came John Martin's home. He owned the Hancock Wharf in front of his place as well as the Louisiana Wharf in front of the Spotonoro place. Then came the Lawrence barroom and grocery; Dr. Pairo, who was rich and whose brother's children lived with
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